While causing considerable damage and pain for Emperor Evulz, Bob is often hurt by his own fury after he calms down. Sometimes Bob ends up Pummeling the Corpse, either in a bid to make sure Evulz goes down and STAYS down, due to being too mad to register that Evulz gave up the ghost during this savage beatdown, or due to a need to let it all out.

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Anime & Manga

Delivered with satisfying regularity in One Piece, often by Luffy, Sanji or sometimes Zoro.

Notable cases would be Luffy at Arlong Park when the Shark Man makes Nami cry, Luffy bursts in punches Arlong in the face in front of all his goons and then brings down all of Arlong Park with Arlong himslef crushed beneath it. Later in the Jaya arc Luffy encounters Bellamy who humiliates Luffy and mocks his dream but Luffy decides it's not whort his time, then he steals the gold of an old man who Luffy has befriended. Luffy is clearly pissed but manged to pull some Tranquil Fury so when he faces Bellamy again he is calm and takes Bellamy out in one punch (which dents the man faces in) and walks off with the recovered treasure. Luffy does it again against Rob Lucci of CP9 after Robin was captured. Luffy against Saint Charloss after he shoots Hatchan a vicious punch to face, made even more satisfying by the fact it was an untouchable noble. Luffy against Caesar Clown who didn't seem to grasp the idea of not pissing of Luffy even after Luffy had caved his face in. Luffy is pretty calm in Dressrosa until Doflamingo forces the now good Bellamy fight Luffy via puppetry, Luffy smashes down Bellamy and then driects his fury towards Domflamingo who doesn't take him seriously until Luffy busts out his Super Form (Gear 4). Luffy uses Gear 4 again when Big Mom's son Cracker mocks Luffy over the captured Sanji Luffy bust out Gear 4 and blows him away.

Roronoa Zoro kinda subverts this as he doesn't believe in fighting for revenge, in fact most of his battles are just him testing his skills and limits and rarely lets his emotions cloud his mind fighting. But there a few times where this mentality slips, in Skypeia when Ohm slices down ship's doctor Tony Tony Chopper Zoro is shaken and made even more angry when Ohm states it was "fate", Ohm asks the Swordsmen whether he fighting for revenge, Zoro replies he doesn't like fighting for that reason but he is pretty "pissed off" and proceeds to wreck Ohm. Zoro gets pretty "vengy" again when fighting government assassin Kaku in his er... "beast mode", when Kaku starts getting mouthing about Robin Zoro doesn't take kindly to it, unlocks his own Supermode and defeats the assassin.

Oh, and that world noble Luffy hit in the face? After Luffy apologizes for sicing an admiral after them (the penalty for attacking a world noble) Zoro sheates his katana and explains that he was planing to slice him into pieces, had not Luffy beat him first.

Sanji, hell pretty much 94 percent of Sanji's fights in the series are revenge beats down, villains will will push certian Berserk Button for him: wasting precious food in front of him or hurt his friends, and harass his favorite babes. Or if they really want to die, they do all of them at once.. Even in his very first appearance, Sanji was pulverizing a Marine asshole Fullbody, for wasting soup in front of him but he'd only be the first of many. Some Sanji most famous beatdowns are: Kuroobi the karate fishman who thought it be wise to insult Nami in front of him and then gloat about how Sanji wasn't strong enough to save her or any of his friends, Sanji corrected him by smashing the fish man though Arlong Park and out the other side. In Enies Lobby Sanji anger manifests into his new attack "Diable Jamble" where his legs catch fire, Jabra the Wolf Man soon understood why it's suicide to piss off Sanji. Sanji's biggest revenge beatdown is for the villain who pissed him off the most: Absalom not only did Absalom molest Nami while she was bathing but kidnapped her and tried to marry her against her will. And to add the cherry on the top Absalom had also stolen Sanji's dream of becoming Invisibility, Sanji brutally beat Absalom into a pulp and didn't stop until the invisible man was imprinted on a wall.

Sanji gets a good one on his brother Yonji, in the past his brother had always brutally bullied Sanji and delighted in torturing him, cut to 13 years later Yonji tries it again, the outcome the outcome is far different.

Whitebeard against Admiral Akainu after Ace's death.

A non-Luffy example. After Robin has been set free, the first thing she does is Seis Fleur: Slap Spandam Stupid, and finish him by snaping his spine in two. After all the shit he had given her whilst she was helpless, this was something that was sorely needed.

Played gruesomely straight in Unit-01's utter massacre of Unit-03, both in the original show and Rebuild.

Kallen gives Suzaku one of these not just once, but twice, in Code Geass, for nearly injecting her with Refrain; the second time being in Knightmare Frame combat where she almost kills him, only to be deferred when he accidentally fires off FLEIJA.

Seras Victoria's fight with Zorin Blitz in Hellsing following Pip Bernadotte's death. Seras is so angry that by the time she's done, most of her enemy's head is a red smear on a brick wall.

Ai no Kusabi's Iason Mink during a brief brawl, tears off Guy's left arm after he finds out what Guy did to his beloved Pet. He later says it was justified retribution.

Averted in Fullmetal Alchemist. When Ed realizes what Shou Tucker did to his daughter and dog by transmuting them into a chimera, he pins Tucker to a wall and starts repeatedly punching him in the face - with his right fist(the steel one). Tucker does not help the situation with his Not So Different speech.

It gets even worse during the Eclipse when, after all Guts and company went through to save Griffith, he decides it would be better for himself if he sacrificed his friends to the God Hand in order to obtain the powers of a demi-god and avenge himself. This culminates in him taking on a demonic form and killing all of his former party but Guts, who is forced to watch as the demonic Griffith rapes Casca to the point that her mind breaks, reverting her mind to that of a young child.

One of the traits of Seiten Taisei Son Goku in Saiyuki is that he now fails to be able to see what is going too far. In one scene that would have been narm if it hadn't been so brutal, Goku sits on Kougaiji (who incidentally is refusing to bring Sanzo to a village to get the antidote for what he's been poisoned with) and proceeds to cheerfully and, without reserve, begin punching him until his bones are pretty much liquid. The worst bit is that Goku considers Kougaiji a kind of friend, and generally considers fighting with him as a sort of game... Seiten Taisei apparently does too, he just doesn't know when it's not fun anymore...

High School D×D: in Volume 6, Shalba Beelzebub traps Asia in the Dimensional Rift and told the rest of the Occult Research Club that she's dead. Guess what Issei does? He activates his Juggernaut Drive and beats him senseless, so much so that he bites his left hand off.

Eureka Seven has Renton whale on an already disabled LFO with fists of Nirvash (despite actually having melee and ranged weapons) until his entire mech is drenched with red fluid. Even the person he was rescuing, a hardened soldier, is stunned by the sheer brutality of it. The thing that finally snaps him out of it is seeing a dismembered arm of the pilot with a wedding band and realizing he just beat a real person into an unrecognizable bloody pulp. Cue the Vomit Discretion Shot.

In Holyland chapter 129, some seniors pushed Masaki's Berserk Button to lure him into a trap. In chapter 131, he paid two of them back.

Attack on Titan has this in the backstory of Eren and Mikasa, when the former rescued the latter from kidnappers. Using the idea that Children Are Innocent to fool the men into letting him into the cabin, Eren proceeded to slit the throat of the first man and then lure the second into a trap. He then proceeded to sit on the man's chest and stab him over, and over, and over, and over again while screaming at him in a murderous rage. The brutality of the killing shocked the police, but they ruled it self-defense since the men were murderers themselves. Eren was nine years old at the time, and explained himself by stating they were merely animals that happened to look like people.

This is also how Eren takes on Titans when in his Titan form, pounding them to pudding.

In the OVANo Regrets, Levi exemplifies this trope to a titan after he sees that it ate the only two people in the world he cared about.

Goku delivers one to Frieza after going all out as a Super Saiyan, all for the people that he killed, in particular, Krillin and Vegeta.

He did it earlier in the original series against Tambourine, the monster who murdered Krillin. That's not even getting started on his second fight with King Piccolo, who was responsible for Master Roshi's death.

In Sword Art Online, Kirito puts Sugou, the Big Bad of the Fairy Dance arc, in a short, but brutal one after the latter made his molestation/rape attempt on Asuna, his Love Interest.

The protagonists of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure from part III onward have Fighting Spirits that are specialized in this trope. The most infamous case is when Jotaro beats down Steely Dan for 3.5 pages as retribution for the humiliation he suffered at the latter's hands. The most extreme example, however, is when Cioccolata receives a 7-page-long beatdown at the hands of Giorno Giovanna (the protagonist of Part 5), with his battle cries of "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA" filling every panel throughout.

In Naru Taru, Takeo Tsurumaru (which at that point apparently became an Implacable Man) punched to death one of the thugs responsible for Norio's murder.

Team Rocket often fall victim to this in the Pokémon anime. While Toon Physics prevent them suffering to any real serious degree, sometimes the heroes will pull nearly every attack their Pokemon can muster onto them before they blast off. In early seasons they would sometimes continue after they'd tried retreat or surrender.

Mikazuki is already a ruthless Combat Pragmatist who never gives his opponents quarter. But when faced again with Carta Issue, who killed Biscuit, he wipes out her Praetorian Guard before she's done speaking and then pounds her mobile suit over and over with Gundam Barbatos' hammer, knocking off its limbs and crushing it into the snow and ice. There's blood visible on the exterior of one subordinate's unit from his assault...and the pilot of the other one, who was standing on his machine's torso yammering while Mika closed in, is literally thrown clear off and turned into a red smear in the snow.

Ein Dalton has been plotting to avenge Crank and protect Gaelio, the only two people who respected him in his entire life, when he finally got the chance to rematch Tekkadan as a cyborg, he delivered his own by splitting Azee with his Graze Axe, kicking Lafter with Leg Drill, impaling Norba with his Pile Bunker, and even attempting to kill Kudelia with his axe. Unlike Mika, it's mostly One-Hit Kill, but still... All three of them survive anyway, and then Ein himself is Impaled with Extreme Prejudice at the end of a particularly fast-paced final battle against Mika

Comic Books

Batman: Poison Ivy brutally killing a Russian gangster who tested his new megaweapon on her island paradise.

In A Dame to Kill For, Dwight has Marv help him rescue Ava. As Marv is beating up the security guards, he notices Manute (who had given Dwight a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown earlier) among them and yells "You! You're the bum who hurt my pal!" before tackling him through a window and beating the crap out of him. After the beatdown, Marv sits beside Manute panting, he hears Manute gasp for breath, and continues beating him up. It is later revealed he also gouged out one of Manute's eyes. Let this sink in for a second. Marv is a Made of Irondeterminator who has shrugged off bullets, cars, and all manner of attacks on his person, has thrown people through walls, and has generally proven to be Made of Iron and an Implacable Man... and he beats Manute up so damn badly he tires himself out.

That Yellow Bastard gives us the page quote. Police Detective John Hartigan saved 11-year-old Nancy Callahan from being killed by Roark, Jr., then was framed for the crime and spent 8 years in prison. After Hartigan is released, Roark gets ahold of Nancy again and tortures her. Hartigan doesn't take it well:

Marv gives a few of these in The Hard Goodbye. For the first one, he uses a hatchet on the cop who killed Lucille, and while it's not shown, Marv says that he took his time killing him and showed him pieces of himself. For the second one, he knocks Kevin out, then saws his arms and legs off, then has a wolf eat his guts, and finally saws his head off. We don't see the details on the final one, but it's implied that he's crushing or tearing out Cardinal Roark's throat or head, among other things.

Marv: (asked if killing a helpless old man will give him satisfaction) The killing, no. No satisfaction. But everything up until the killing will be a gas. You can scream now if you want to.

World War Hulk ended with the Hulk delivering this to Meik, his friend and ally, when he confessed to being responsible for the death of Hulk's wife, his son (or so he thought), and a million other people; basically everything that had prompted the war.

X-Factor: 204 (v.3). Even an enemy's simulator knows that if you hurt/kill Rictor, Shatterstar's Roaring Rampage of Revenge would come next, quickly followed by your demise. A mini-version of this occurs when Shatterstar meets Cortex and realizes he's the one that possessed him and made him almost kill Rictor. He then chops off Cortex's hand. Hey, it pays to have a trained warrior as your boyfriend.

Out of context, The Punisher violently flinging a helpless woman against a shatter-proof window over and over would seem like a Moral Event Horizon. Knowing that she's a ruthless perpetrator of a sex trafficking slave ring, responsible for the murder of an infant to torment the mother, and even worse things to the other captives besides, makes this an example of this trope.

In The Transformers (IDW), Arcee was the first female Cybertronian, an unwilling test subject on introducing gender into a genderless species by the mad scientist Jhiaxus. As a result, she's a tad violent and takes out her fury on anything related to him or his experiments. When she finally finds Jhiaxus himself, he's been exposed to the Dead Universe, an alternate dimension that has the added ability of making those who have crossed over and back immortal (so long as they remain near the portal between the two). Needless to say, Arcee manages to gain some much needed catharsis from this state of affairs.

In one arc of Outsiders, Grace Choi is reunited with the pedophile who enslaved her as a child. She's since grown into a statuesque, nigh-invulnerable bruiser. It does not end well for him. One entire page is filled with panels of her fist going back and forth into his face, getting increasingly bloody as it goes on...

In the Firefly fic Forward, River does this to a Hand of Blue after he shoots Simon, which causes her to impale the Hand on her electrified sword, tear it free, and then stab him in the face until his head is reduced to the consistency of charred hamburger.

Harry Potter does this to Marcus Flint in the Enter the Fnords continuity of Top Dog, after Flint molests Hermione. Involves knives and being repeatedly shot in the extremities, in front of all his friends who are held back by a shield.

Stars Above: After multiple chapters of torment, Kagami finally beats Desideria to death with a bokken, and keeps going until the latter's body is nothing but a bloody smear on the pavement.

By the end of Yognapped's second installment, Peva has murdered Sips and forced the Yogscasters to aid in his release of Herobrine via a month of brutal mining. Once he tries to attack again, Lewis disarms him and beats the literal living hell out of him. He makes it last uninterrupted for over half of the day, tears off Peva's wounded arm with his bare hands, and remains completely silent throughout. And by the end, Peva's STILL ALIVE.

Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act II: Upon discovering that Miyabi had raped Mizore, Dark goes ballistic; when he gets the upper hand, Dark slowly crushes all of the bones in Miyabi's arms and legs to powder before tearing them off one by one, punches him in the face with such force that his jawbone snaps clean off, and finally tears his spinal cord clean out of his body with his bare hands. Even though Tsukune and co. all agree that Miyabi deserved every minute of it, they're still horrified at Dark's brutality.

In Dante's Night at Freddy's 2: Animatronic Boogaloo, Golden Freddy leads Dante to believe that he may have killed his daughter by stuffing her into a suit. Dante's response? Smashing him into anything he can find while being so enraged he doesn't notice when he's slipping into Devil Trigger and gouging the carousel out of the ground to beat him with it. The only solace Golden Freddy gets is Dante promising him a Mercy Kill when he reveals where his daughter is.

In the final showdown of Angel of the Bat, Cassandra Cain's mind has a Pavolovian reaction (long story and lots of Artistic License – Biology), causing it to become flooded with hallucinogens. As a result, she ends up forgoing her normal fighting style (concentrating on doing only as much harm as is absolutely necessary) and flies into a frenzy, pounding the main villain's face in well after he started begging for mercy. Upon coming to her senses and realizing the harm she has done, she has a short Heroic B.S.O.D..

Not one's fists, and we aren't actually shown it, but in Tremble Mortal, the Titans capture Harley Quinn, and Raven heals her brain from the damage caused by the Joker. It leaves Harley catatonic due to a severe case of My God, What Have I Done?. Then, they capture Joker and leave him tied up in a cell. By the next morning, Joker ends up with six thousand stab wounds, and Harley is gone along with his head.

Film

28 Days Later: After the soldiers imprison a woman and child, Jim beats the tar out of every soldier in the complex (aided by an unwitting zombie) and gouges out one's eyes with his thumbs.

Curse of the Golden Flower: After the Emperor's youngest son kills the heir to the throne, his father pulls off his massive solid-gold belt and beats him with it, continuing to beat his corpse long after he's dead. His creepy little laugh doesn't help.

The Godfather: Carlo physically abuses Sonny's sister. Sonny then tracks down Carlo and attacks him in broad daylight. He uses his fists, his feet, Carlo's shoes, and a nearby metal trashcan (which is brought down smack on Carlo's head). All of this happens in public, and a crowd watches while Sonny's goons keep them from interfering. Carlo is left barely alive in a nearby puddle.

Layer Cake: The protagonist's cohort, Morty, an otherwise perfectly calm and stoic character, suddenly beats a former partner in crime half to death after having his Berserk Button toyed with just a little too much.

Poltergeist: A poltergeist has been terrorizing the house, and there's a horrible clown doll in Robbie's room that he just hates. Just when everything seems okay, the clown comes to life, sneaks up on Robbie, and attempts to suffocate him. Robbie overcomes the clown, throws it on the bed, and tears it apart, screaming, "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!".

After being captured, persuaded to saw off his foot to escape, and subjected to insane psychological torture, Adam in Sawscreams his head off while bashing in his apparent captor's head with a toilet lid.

Averted in Saw II, when Detective Matthews beats up the already-suffering Jigsaw. But Jigsaw has the last laugh.

In Punisher: War Zone, Frank delivers a brutal beatdown to Jigsaw in revenge for him killing Microchip.

The protagonist of Joshuu Sasori has a tendency to inflict knife wounds to people she really hates that are clearly painful but not immediately fatal, while silently snarling her contempt and loathing at them — over and over again, until her staggering victim finally keels over.

From Marie's perspective in High Tension when she manages to gain the upper hand against the killer and viciously bludgeons his face with a thick wooden stake wrapped in rusty barbed wire.

Vin Diesel's character in A Man Apart snaps and beats a man to death while he's supposed to be undercover.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: In Mirkwood, Bilbo drops the Ring and finds that a smaller Giant Spidergrazed its leg upon it. Bilbo's response? Brutally stab the hell out of the spider in an Unstoppable Rage, before picking up the ring and going "Mine." He's visibly shocked after that, and ends up gazing at the Ring and the scene in horror.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Sarah gives Doug, the security guard who had licked her face earlier after strapping her to her bed, one of these when she escapes. She beats him senseless with a broken broom handle, eventually breaking it in half across the back of his neck.

In Ender's Game, Stilson, a neighborhood bully, and Bonzo, a kid at Battle School, both try to do this to Ender and fail (It's Personal, especially for Bonzo because he perceived Ender's winning as an insult to his honor), causing Ender to fight back... and he actually kills both of them.

The same scene as above occurred in the original Godfather novel. The only reason that Sonny didn't beat Carlo to death was not because of the witnesses, but because Carlo meekly huddled on the ground and didn't even try to defend himself.

At the wedding in the beginning of the novel, the undertaker Bonasera came to Don Corleone to get justice for his daughter, who was viciously beaten by two young men after she refused to have sex with them. His request of "Make them suffer like she suffers" is depicted in excruciating detail as Paulie Gatto brings two ex-heavyweight boxers to help him out with the punks. By the end of it, they are still alive, but the book says that they'd need several months of reconstructive surgery before they'd get out of the hospital.

In Solo Command, Gamorrean pilot "Piggy" saBinring is in the room when a gunman tries to assassinate Admiral Ackbar. After getting shot once, Piggy proceeds to pick up Ackbar's desk and promptly reduce the gunman's head to about a quarter of its proper width.

...and puts a sizable dent in Ackbar's (shipboard) office wall, with the dent also appearing in the cafeteria/lounge on the other side of the wall, hurling a hapless ensign halfway across the room while all but one of the other people in the room run for the door.

Also Corran Horn in I, Jedi to a sadistic underling while Horn was going undercover in a pirate group. The man had done so many nasty things, including strafing crowded streets for fun, that when he finally pushed Corran too far, he was beaten to an unrecognizable pulp. Made even better because he had been very handsome. And then to top it all off, the leader of the pirate group had him executed for insubordination and attacking a superior officer.

Artemis Fowl's bodyguard and manservant Butler in the first book of the series does this to a troll. At the height of the hostage crisis, the LEP send in a captured troll to force someone in the Fowl manor to cry for help, which could be taken as a sign that they're allowed inside. Butler runs headlong into the beast as it enters the building, and before he has much chance to do anything, it eviscerates him and heaves him through a brick wall. He survives long enough for Holly to heal him with magic, and his subsequent takedown of the troll, using a mace and gauntlets taken from a suit of armor, is was only stopped by Holly ordering him to. It's also staggeringly controlled, ultimately ending up as part of the LEP hand-to-hand manual.

Horus Heresy sees Khârn deliver one to Erebus for the latter's murder of Argel Tal, the last sane brother-in-arms Khârn has. Erebus, who fancies himself as "destiny's hand", is outclassed by an opponent who seems dowmright bored.

Charmed has this of a sort with Chris in "Spin City." Having earlier been turned into a spider demon, he viciously confronts Leo, who mockingly asks why he hates him. Eventually, the taunts drive Chris over the edge; he throws Leo across the room, and then pins him down and absolutely pummels him, all while screaming "You don't know me!" Even after being cured of the demon infection, he continues to beat on Leo, leaving his face bloody in the process, until Piper comes in and pulls him off. Through it all, Leo just lets him vent his frustrations and doesn't even try to fight back. However, since this is a different Leo from the one in Chris' time, one could argue that this was also a case of Misplaced Retribution.

Firefly: Episode 10, War Stories. Mal is captured by the elderly and sadistic Niska, is brutally tortured via electric shock, has his ear cut off, and is then killed painfully only to be resuscitated for further torture. When Mal's crew stages a rescue, Mal overcomes the guard and gives Niska what he deserves.

In the episode 10 of season 5 "Mother's Mercy", Arya stabs the crap out of Meryn Trant, thus exacting revenge for his apparent murder of her former sword fighting instructor, Syrio Forel.

When Jon finally tracks Ramsay Bolton into Winterfell, what follows is not Ramsay and Jon fighting with swords, but rather Ramsay trying to shoot Jon several times, failing, and Jon bashing Ramsay's head with the shield, and then proceeding to beat all seven hells out of Ramsay's face with his bare fists for all the hell Ramsay put his family through. This leaves just enough of Ramsay to turn over to Jon's sister, Sansa, who has Ramsay fed to his own starving dogs later.

Lost: Hurley's beatdown of Sawyer after one too many fat jokes. Everyone just watches in amusement, even Jin. Averted, in that someone eventually intervened before things got out of hand.

A literal example on Merlin considering the episode involved an actual melee. After Arthur puts a stop to a protection racket going on in the local taverns, the thugs responsible go to a rather ridiculous extent to take their revenge: by using magical implements in a kingdom where it's forbidden (and punishable by death), murdering two noble knights in order to assume their identities, and entering themselves in the melee so that they'll have a better chance of killing Arthur in the chaos. All because he had them clapped in the stocks for a few hours!

Sherlock: Oh, it's all a bit of a blur, Detective Inspector. I lost count.

In The Walking Dead, Shane beats Ed half to death when he sees him hit Carol. Bonus points for delivering his "if I catch you again..." speech and then punching him several more times. And considering Ed's recent behavior towards his own daughter, Shane's retribution becomes even more satisfying to witness.

Brock Lesnar repeatedly to Kurt Angle. Yeah, Team Angle were a pain in the neck, but really, did you have to break the man's neck? Especially considering Paul Heyman was who you really had a beef with? In an uncharacteristic display of human compassion, Lesnar actually agreed he crossed the line and made sure Angle made a full recovery. Angle, in turn, turned face.

Mercedes Martinez's default response to being crossed is to crack the head of the perpetrator or kick their teeth down it, as Angel Orsini and Jessicka Havok found out the hard way in WSU. Though in the case of the latter, it was disproportionately less than what Rain's Army and The Midwest Militia, which Havok belonged to, had done, despite Martinez asking for God's forgiveness.

Jimmy Jacobs encouraged Delirious to hold nothing back when attacking Rhett Titus, who had spread false rumors about having sex with Delirious's crush, Daizee Haze. Incidentally, this led to Delirious's corruption and membership in Age Of The Fall.

Kofi Kingston's short lived stint in the WWE main event came when he uncharacteristically knocked out Randy Orton and put him through a table. This being in response to Orton's group, Legacy, blaming Raw's loss to Smackdown at Bragging Rights on Kofi, even though it was The Big Show's fault. For that matter, the rest of the Raw roster that wasn't Legacy basically mugged the Big Show and sent him packing to Smackdown.

For all the whining done about the universal PG rating that was applied to all WWE programming, pay per view included, the rating didn't stop supposed baby faceSheamus from giving The Big Show thirty-one chair shots, which was unprecedented in the company even during the "Attitude Era" and a rare sight even in the wider world of pro wrestling. Anyone remember what Big Show had done to provoke that? Some insensitive comments about red hair? Well, Big Show would go on to get his own revenge, not by number of chair shots but by striking Sheamus with a folding chair so large even Big Show looked small sitting on it at Extreme Rules.

Tabletop Games

The "Berserk Anger" and "Red Rage of Compassion" Limit Breaks in Exalted are essentially this; the Exalted in question flies into a rage and starts attacking blindly, without enough presence of mind to even draw a weapon. The main difference between the two is that RRoC is directed toward "sources of suffering," while Berserk Anger is directed towards anything and everything nearby, whether Friend or Foe.

Malfeas would desperately like to do this to all those treacherous gods, but he's kind of hell at the moment. No, he's not in hell. He is hell. But he need not worry, his chosen are out to do the job of freeing him, and the charms he taught them all have something to do with EXTREME REVENGE, melee or not.

"Berserk Anger" returns in Scion — blow a Courage roll badly enough and you start killing everything between you and the nearest wall. Failing a Valor roll to that degree has similar results, but you aren't as likely to kill your friends.

In Episode 1 of Life Is Strange, Warren intervenes when Nathan tries to attack Max, and gets a black eye for his trouble. In Episode 4, Warren intervenes again... and this time, if the player doesn't stop him, beats Nathan into a broken, sobbing mess along with a list of reasons for doing so.

Warren: You like to hurt people, huh? <kicks Nathan in the guts> Like Max? <kick> Like Kate? <kick> Like me? <kick> Feel this motherfucker!

[PROTOTYPE]'s Alex Mercer encounters people-of-interest throughout New York City that have played a role in his clouded past. Upon capture, Alex can immediately chokeslam his victims and viciously deconstruct their face into a pool of blood with his bare fists before absorbing them and their memories. What makes this into an example of the trope is that later on, you do it to someone very specific. After all of the damage they caused, getting your own back and seeing Greene getting liquified like this, even with the same animation as everyone else, is intensely satisfying.

When you think about it, Sonic the Hedgehog does this to Erazor Djinn's One-Winged Angel form Alf Layla wa Layla in Sonic and the Secret Rings. Consider this: he just watched his only companion in the entire game get temporarily killed, and because of Erazor's mistake, he absorbs the World Rings of Hatred, Sadness, and Rage and becomes Darkspine Sonic. The entire level consists of you flying up to Erazor, kicking his own big ball of energy back at him, and then rushing in to beat the crap out of him with your bare hands. Also doubles as a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.

At the end of Battlefield 3, Blackburn has already been through hell, but the sight of Solomon killing Montes, his best and last remaining friend, finally throws him over the edge, prompting him to choke the guy half to death with his handcuffs before beating his face in with a brick.

In Grand Theft Auto V, this is basically the only responseTrevor has to someone doing him wrong. Betray him in a business deal? Insult him (or worse, his mother)? Point out the fact that he's a psychopathic monster? Prepare to end up a puree on the street. Of course, he's equally proficient with machine guns and shotguns, as well as the standard running your ass over, but if at all possible he gets down and dirty.

In Episode 8 ("In Harm's Way") of The Walking Dead, Kenny receives a severe beating from Carver that ends with him losing an eye. Mere hours later, he returns the favor. With a crowbar. The latter's face is pretty much gone by the time he gives up.

Webcomics

In the Homestuck animation "[S] Make Her Pay", Aradia gets her revenge by viciously beating the Blue Blood out of Vriska. She only relents after seeing Tavros's horrified reaction. We later learn that this beating was severe enough that it resulted in Vriska's death, though Vriska was prepared for that and used it as an opportunity to ascend to God Tier.

Later played for laughs with Post-Scratch Jack Noir beating up a prison guard. After 7 knives in the back and the 89th head bash into the wall, Jack decides that he is sorry for the overkill. And by "sorry," he means "bored."

That was the second beat-down. The first came at the hands of Airman Higgs after Zola made the mistake of pissing him off. Higgs is also known as "The Unstoppable Higgs," and there is a VERY good reason for that; the only reason that Zola was still alive at that point was because she was doped up on Psycho Serum.

Dellyn Goblinslayer of Goblins kept a female yuan-ti named Kin as his plaything and routinely abused her to within an inch of her life. Minmax and Forgath get into a bar fight with him and manage to gruesomely beat him, at which point Dellyn stabilizes at -6 hitpoints. As a high-level ranger, if he recovers, he could track them down and take his revenge, so as they argue over whether or not to kill him while he's unconscious, Kin picks up Minmax's broken sword and stabs Dellyn under the jaw. Then she stabs him again. And again and again...

In The Order of the Stick, Crystalinflicts this on her boss Bozzok after realizing that he had used her for his own gain and paid a wizard to reanimate her into a hellish existence as a flesh golem. She's furious enough to punch through his chest — and doesn't stop there.

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In V4 of Survival of the Fittest, Jimmy Brennan gets revenge on school bully Phillip Ward by beating him to death with a piece of driftwood, and continues to pummel his head in long after he's died.

In Entry #67 of Marble Hornets, Tim, as his masked persona, repeatedly punches Alex, who is tied to a chair and thus helpless to fight back because of everything the latter has done to make the former's life a living hell.

Peter beats up Jimmy Fallon (who was the SNL host) for all of the horrible sketches he's done. Fallon had slept with his daughter and used the sex as an opening sketch. This is one of the few times Peter actually does show some care for Meg. Of course, when he beats up Fallon, it's for the aforementioned reason before asking for the man who slept with Meg.

Brian gets a similar beating from Quagmire; Brian has sex with Quagmire's father, who recently had a sex change operation. Amazingly, Brian still comes out on top in the end: as Quagmire leaves, Brian says, "Hey... I f*cked your dad." and slams the door. Brian didn't even know that was Quagmire's dad, and underwent a massive squick reaction before Quagmire came and beat him up, making it a literal and figurative case of Kick the Dog.

In the Stroker and Hoop episode "I Saw Stroker Killing Santa (a.k.a. A Cold, Dead, White Christmas)," Santa Claus keeps shooting repeatedly at the guy who tried to kill him, continuing after he is totally dead.

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